Adam Kilgarriff
1960–2015

Research Interests

Language corpora; word frequency distributions; how these vary across language
varieties, and how they relate to syntactic and lexical hypotheses; corpus
interfaces; automatic and semi-automatic lexical acquisition from corpora;
using the web as a corpus.

The lexicon; its structure; lexical resources, including published
dictionaries; how lexicographers write dictionaries, how they determine what
meanings a word has, and how this relates to theoretical discussions of
ambiguity and computational work on word sense disambiguation.

Relations between lexicons and corpora.

Also:

word lists for language learning; word frequency lists

automatically finding lexical information in large corpora

using the web as a source of linguistic data

measuring similarity between language corpora

polysemy, metonymy, metaphor, norms and exploitations: the structure and
potential of word meanings

Outside Interests

Walking, preferably up and down mountains. Reading novels. Sunday morning
football with the ten-year-olds.